It's so hard to imagine not being alone
Does anybody ever know if they absolutely want kids anyway? Humanity as a whole is a mixed bag, the whole question coming up makes me wonder why my parents are always the ones advocating against gambling. ![]()
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Retro, I think hurtloam is a traditionalist in denial when it comes to relationships (sorry hurtloam).
Hurtloam, I think you *do* want the man to make the first move.
You wish one of your glamorous crushes would come along and sweep you off your feet.
And you feel unnatural and unfeminine when you make the first move and ask him out, but you don't want to admit it; because you do desire the man to approach you first.
Hence why you keep making excuses to avoid this.
Did I hit the nail on the head or did I assume it wrong?
Hurtloam, I think you *do* want the man to make the first move.
You wish one of your glamorous crushes would come along and sweep you off your feet.
And you feel unnatural and unfeminine when you make the first move and ask him out, but you don't want to admit it; because you do desire the man to approach you first.
Hence why you keep making excuses to avoid this.
No, after years of getting it wrong and asking guys out who weren't interested I'm just more cautious now.
At the moment we seem to putting in equal amounts of effort which is a nice change from the norm. I'm ok with that. After that disasterous conversation last week, we've acutally been having some pretty good communications. So, I'll just see how it goes.
I'm still feeling cautious because the step from chatting to something more, although slimming down all the time, still seems vast.
Did I hit the nail on the head or did I assume it wrong?
I hate this friggin website. I wrote a whole response and it got deleted.
In short, no.
I don't really mind making a move, but I have to be sure now after years of totally getting it wrong.
At the moment I'm just talking to him and seeing how it goes. That conversation where I panicked and walked away was only one conversation. Most days we do have a good chat.
We still don't really know much about each other and it may not work out. I just don't want to get my hopes up. I think he has figured out that I'm interested and I do think he likes me too.
The silver lining here is that people imagine cooperatively.
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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos
Hurtloam, I think you *do* want the man to make the first move.
You wish one of your glamorous crushes would come along and sweep you off your feet.
And you feel unnatural and unfeminine when you make the first move and ask him out, but you don't want to admit it; because you do desire the man to approach you first.
Hence why you keep making excuses to avoid this.
No, after years of getting it wrong and asking guys out who weren't interested I'm just more cautious now.
At the moment we seem to putting in equal amounts of effort which is a nice change from the norm. I'm ok with that. After that disasterous conversation last week, we've acutally been having some pretty good communications. So, I'll just see how it goes.
I'm still feeling cautious because the step from chatting to something more, although slimming down all the time, still seems vast.
Did I hit the nail on the head or did I assume it wrong?
I hate this friggin website. I wrote a whole response and it got deleted.
In short, no.
By 2017 standards, this is one of the sh*ttiest programmed websites on the internet, and it's always been that way.
That's whawe get for having a single middle-class income programmer (every other programmer and founder of this website is gone except for Alex)
I wonder why Alex can't recruit, I'm sure there's plenty of programmers here.
Because it doesn't necessarily take programmers to replace PHP. I've offered to migrate WP's framework before & Alex nixed it *my free bid* because working conditions elsewhere for S/W/web devs with AS still usually suck.
Really, I was seriously offering to fix it but Alex already rebased the whole thing a year or 2 ago. Put up the code or otherwise just the respect for whomever already did. Alex actually pays hosting fees towards something useful which is a helluva lot more than I can say for a lot of people I've worked with.
I'm gonna go eat & maybe party instead of writing PHP. You should try getting rid of SQL under this thing before thinking about scrapping all the bindings on top of it. I'm here for your say, not the ugly passé buttons adjacent.
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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos
Really, I was seriously offering to fix it but Alex already rebased the whole thing a year or 2 ago. Put up the code or otherwise just the respect for whomever already did. Alex actually pays hosting fees towards something useful which is a helluva lot more than I can say for a lot of people I've worked with.
I'm gonna go eat & maybe party instead of writing PHP. You should try getting rid of SQL under this thing before thinking about scrapping all the bindings on top of it. I'm here for your say, not the ugly passé buttons adjacent.
I appreciate what he does ad as doe, but this website feels like it's the 90s or early 2000s internet era, in both design and function.
Thansfr trying to helphim out, for free nonetheless.
HURTLOAM, im sorry it ddnt work out. care to share what happened?
I wonder if you might still have a chance..
Hurtloam, I think you *do* want the man to make the first move.
You wish one of your glamorous crushes would come along and sweep you off your feet.
And you feel unnatural and unfeminine when you make the first move and ask him out, but you don't want to admit it; because you do desire the man to approach you first.
Hence why you keep making excuses to avoid this.
No, after years of getting it wrong and asking guys out who weren't interested I'm just more cautious now.
At the moment we seem to putting in equal amounts of effort which is a nice change from the norm. I'm ok with that. After that disasterous conversation last week, we've acutally been having some pretty good communications. So, I'll just see how it goes.
I'm still feeling cautious because the step from chatting to something more, although slimming down all the time, still seems vast.
Did I hit the nail on the head or did I assume it wrong?
I hate this friggin website. I wrote a whole response and it got deleted.
In short, no.
By 2017 standards, this is one of the sh*ttiest programmed websites on the internet, and it's always been that way.
That's whawe get for having a single middle-class income programmer (every other programmer and founder of this website is gone except for Alex)
I wonder why Alex can't recruit, I'm sure there's plenty of programmers here.
Well there were only 2 of us to begin with so "every other programmer and founder of this website" is literally only one other person, Dan, who was here at the start but left to build other things.
I have a great programmer who has offered to help me fix some things so could you guys please help me compile a list of problems that still exist on WP?
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Hurtloam, I think you *do* want the man to make the first move.
You wish one of your glamorous crushes would come along and sweep you off your feet.
And you feel unnatural and unfeminine when you make the first move and ask him out, but you don't want to admit it; because you do desire the man to approach you first.
Hence why you keep making excuses to avoid this.
No, after years of getting it wrong and asking guys out who weren't interested I'm just more cautious now.
At the moment we seem to putting in equal amounts of effort which is a nice change from the norm. I'm ok with that. After that disasterous conversation last week, we've acutally been having some pretty good communications. So, I'll just see how it goes.
I'm still feeling cautious because the step from chatting to something more, although slimming down all the time, still seems vast.
Did I hit the nail on the head or did I assume it wrong?
I hate this friggin website. I wrote a whole response and it got deleted.
In short, no.
By 2017 standards, this is one of the sh*ttiest programmed websites on the internet, and it's always been that way.
That's whawe get for having a single middle-class income programmer (every other programmer and founder of this website is gone except for Alex)
I wonder why Alex can't recruit, I'm sure there's plenty of programmers here.
Well there were only 2 of us to begin with so "every other programmer and founder of this website" is literally only one other person, Dan, who was here at the start but left to build other things.
I have a great programmer who has offered to help me fix some things so could you guys please help me compile a list of problems that still exist on WP?
I haven't really had many problems with the site. Lately though the text blocks in the forums have been misaligned...for example they will cover the information of the poster in the left of the screen. Also twice I've signed in and immediately been directed to a user avatar file but it hasn't happened again.
As for suggestions to improve the site, in the forum message list, I think it'd be nice to see the date the threads were started, under the OPs username. Also, to go to a different page of the message list after scrolling down the list, I have to return to the top to go to the next page. It would be nice if I could navigate there from the bottom of the page.
Hey Alex thats fab youve got someone helping out. Is there a link to a new thread you can post so we can make suggestions.
Meanwhile in other news, kraftie asked what happened ftom the start of this thread till tonight.
I've started a new thread in the haven coz this one has gone a bit off topic.
http://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=350594
You're totally on topic, only nobody's thinking about anything easy today.
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